Mixed individual-pairs tournament design for 7 players

Julian D. A. Wiseman, June 2003

This is a 7-player individual-pairs tournament design which was last updated in June 2003.

Available formats:
PDF (A4)	Schedule, in score-sheet, with running totals; Schedule by player; Blank score sheet, with running totals
PDF (A3)	Schedule, in score-sheet, with running totals; Schedule by player; Blank score sheet, with running totals
PDF (USL)	Schedule, in score-sheet, with running totals; Schedule by player; Blank score sheet, with running totals
Text	Human-readable schedule, machine-readable schedule
Also see the individual-pairs explanation and the links to designs for other numbers of players.

Properties of this tournament design:


      i       ii    
1    A:B+C  G+E:D+F 
2    G:C+D  F+B:A+E 
3    F:D+A  E+C:G+B 
4    E:A+G  B+D:F+C 
5    B:G+F  C+A:E+D 
6    C:F+E  D+G:B+A 
7    D:E+B  A+F:C+G

This is an individual pairs for 7 players.
Each player partners each of the others exactly once, and self-partners exactly once.
Each player opposes each of the others exactly twice.
Each player plays 4 games on one side and 3 on the other.
All players play three times at venue i and four times at venue ii.
Players remaining on venue ii for two consecutive rounds do so in pairs and as opponents.
If players are ranked, from A the best to G the worst, this tournament has an unfairness measure of 109585.854.
This design is based on the cyclic group of order 7.